Girls' name · since 1925
Marthann
71 babies named Marthann in U.S. Social Security records since 1925, with the highest year being 1950. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 71
- total births
- 1925–1950
- years on record
- 1940s
- peak decade
- 37%
- born in that decade
Marthann sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 71 recorded since 1925.
Marthann has 71 recorded births among girls since 1925, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1925 to 1950.
- 71 total births
- 1925–1950 years on record
- 1940s peak decade
- 37% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Marthann's 71 recorded births place it above 57% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Marthann's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Marthann splits its recorded history at 1942: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1925 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1950 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Marthann popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1925–1950
- Peak year (1950)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 26 years of records
Marthann by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1940s was Marthann's strongest decade.
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Marthann births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s
1920s
11 births
- 1930s
1930s
23 births
- 1940s
1940s
26 births
- 1950s
1950s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 26 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Marthann's usage has stayed within range of its 1940s decade-level peak (26 total births) through the 1950s (11) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1925–1950 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Marthann: Baby Name Since 1925 - 71 Births, Peak 1950." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/marthann. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Marthann draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.